Amédée Dumontpallier

Victor Alphonse Amédée Dumontpallier (8 March 1826, Honfleur – 13 January 1899, Paris) was a French gynecologist best known for his studies of hypnotism and metalloscopy (metallotherapy).

In 1857 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, where from 1863 he served as chef de clinique at the Hôtel-Dieu.

In 1891 he was named president of the Société d'hypnologie et de psychologie, an organization of which, he was also a co-founder.

[1][2] In 1886, he co-founded the journal "Revue de l'hypnotisme expérimental et thérapeutique".

[3] He was a prominent member of the so-called "Salpêtrière School of Hypnosis".